Joseph Doody
Anglo-Irish tenor Joseph Doody was born in West Yorkshire. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, the Royal College of Music, and the National Opera Studio.
His many recent appearances at home and abroad include his English National Opera debut as Nemorino L’elisir d’amore, Ramiro La Cenerentola for the Opéra de Québec, Count Almaviva Il barbiere di Siviglia for Longborough Festival Opera, Aufidio Lucio Silla (Salzburg Landestheater) and Mordecai Esther (Solomon’s Knot: Halle Handel Festival, Wigmore Hall).
His current and future plans include both Brighella Ariadne auf Naxos and Belmonte Die Entführung aus dem Serail for Buxton International Festival, and a double bill of Haydn Philemon and Baucis and the premiere of Daria Kwiatkowska’s The Gods Don't Sing for Barber Opera in Birmingham.
Amongst his other recent acclaimed performances are Orpheus Orpheus in the Underworld for IF Opera, a return to the Royal Ballet and Opera for A Letter from Ben, Alessandro Il re pastore and Italian Tenor/Guglielmo Viva la Diva (Buxton International Festival), Count Errico La vera constanza (New Chamber Opera), Toby Robinson Crusoe (West Green House Opera) and Mosquito The Cunning Little Vixen (Welsh National Opera). His other roles include Albert Albert Herring, Tom Rakewell The Rake’s Progress, Jupiter Semele, Basilio Le nozze di Figaro, Pylade Iphigénie en Tauride, Ernesto Don Pasquale and Leicester Maria Stuarda.
On disc Joseph has featured as Captain Trevor in a Gramophone Awards-nominated recording of C.V. Stanford’s Shamus O’Brien (Retrospect Opera). In concert, he appears regularly in a wide variety of repertoire, including both Bach Passions, Monteverdi Vespers and Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Orff Carmina Burana and both Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings and Les Illuminations.
Previously for English Touring Opera: Ramiro La Cenerentola, Tsar Berendey The Snow Maiden.
